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Spooky monks and Michael Sheen murals: behind the scenes of new BBC drama The Way
Michael Sheen says he wants viewers of his new drama The Way “to feel like what it has felt like for the last 10 years of living” in the UK.
That is, “in a society where you don't know if you're in a horror film or a sitcom,” he told viewers at a Q&A for the show on Monday night. “Something that feels life and death stakes suddenly goes incredibly surreal and absurd, and then goes back to being incredibly scary again.”
The Way, which is due to air in February, follows the Driscoll family in the old industrial town of Port Talbot on the Welsh coast. Estranged from each other, they nevertheless have to set out on a cross-country odyssey to safety when they become tied up with civil unrest in the area.
In addition to making a cameo appearance in the show, The Way also marks Sheen’s first directorial role.
“I was never going to direct it. And then they said it's going to be in Port Talbot and then I have to direct it,” he joked.
“And the original seed of the idea was, I had this idea about watching a British family being uprooted and you didn't know why. And having to kind of flee their homes and go on the journey across Britain and then get across the channel. So it was a sort of refugee journey in reverse to the way we normally see it.”
It is also a passion project for the Welsh actor, who grew up in and now lives in Port Talbot himself – while the cast, who are majority Welsh, mostly grew up in the same area.
“There was so much of him in it,” said Steffan Rhodri about Sheen, who plays dad Geoff Driscoll (and who went to drama school with him). “I mean, you see a bit of Port Talbot. The one bit you didn't see is a massive wall with a mural of him on it.”
Was it hard to film the show without including it? “It was very hard,” Sheen joked. “We came very, very close – I mean, we were literally around the corner from it, and Callum made me go and have a photograph with it between takes. So that was difficult.”
‘Callum’ is Callum Scott Howells, best known for his performance in Russell T Davies drama It’s A Sin. He plays the disaffected Driscoll son, Owen – whom we first meet as a lonely figure looking for connection, and who gets caught up in the riots that sweep the town.
“It says in the script, James put something like, ‘we don't know why at this point, but he's feeling something. He’s there now, and he’s present’. And that for me kind of said everything. Like he doesn't he doesn't even know why he's rioting, but he's doing it,” Howells said.
“That was something that I really kind of threw myself into, and Michael was great in allowing me to do that. Yeah, those riot scenes were so fun, we just got to go nuts, you know. I headbutted a riot shield… because I’m nuts.”
The show itself also features the writing talents of James Graham, best known for political film Brexit: The Uncivil War and BBC crime drama Sherwood.
“We talked collectively about not wanting a traditional dystopian future, which was, which was really grim and bleak,” he said. "I think we all got excited by imagining the reverse of that... what if it was the myths and the legends and the folklores that embed themselves in our national psyche. Do they trap us? Do they inhibit us?"
The end result, he said, was a "contamination of genres." Not just social realism: the second episode becomes "a road movie, or an adventure movie on foot.
"So you start to see these elements of the myths and legends that the family carry with them become those stories we grew up with like Watership Down and Wizard of Oz, and it becomes very fantastical and weird."
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Nov. in Film
Misc. stuff. Making more headway on A24 completion. I technically watched 27 because I watched the first and the 14th ones about 4 times each and they are new favorites.
1, 14, 16
After Yang (2021)
Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm (2022)
Black Adam (2022)
Brexit: The Uncivil War (2019)
Burroughs: The Movie (1983)
Columbus (2017)
Easter Sunday (2022)
First Cow (2019)
Freakonomics (2010)
Good Time (2017)
Inside Job (2010)
Jerry and Marge Go Large (2022)
Lightyear (2022)
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021)
Moonlight (2016)
Raymond & Ray (2022)
Rifkin's Festival (2020)
See How They Run (2022)
Waves (2019)
The Woman in the Fifth (2011)
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It's always tempting to give a wide birth to British crime dramas. Not that they are not usually very good, but very much of a type and it takes a rare and special one to break out from the mould. This writer, James Graham, is excellent, as his Brexit: The Uncivil War and Quiz attest. The cast here was outstanding too. David Morrissey, Clare Rushbrook, Adeel Akhtar, Leslie Manville. Then the story, which used a murder mystery to explore the spy cop scandal, the miners strike, the British political establishment, community and much more. I usually dread a second series for this kind of thing, but seeing these actors and this writer together again in another well written, densely plotted season will be very welcome.
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Politikanın Perde Arkası: Brexit: The Uncivil War Temmuz’da Gain’de
Politikanın Perde Arkası: Brexit: The Uncivil War Temmuz’da Gain’de
Yakın tarihin en önemli politik gelişmelerinden Brexit’in ardındaki inanılmaz gerçekleri keşfedin! BBC First işbirliği ile Temmuz ayında GAİN’de yayına girecek olan Brexit: The Uncivil War, hala çok tartışılan Vote Leave kampanyasının perde arkasında yaşananları usta oyuncu Benedict Cumberbatch’ın etkileyici başrolüyle izleyiciye aktarıyor.
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Politikanın Perde Arkası: Brexit: The Uncivil War Temmuz’da Gain’de
Politikanın Perde Arkası: Brexit: The Uncivil War Temmuz’da Gain’de
Yakın tarihin en önemli politik gelişmelerinden Brexit’in ardındaki inanılmaz gerçekleri keşfedin! BBC First işbirliği ile Temmuz ayında GAİN’de yayına girecek olan Brexit: The Uncivil War, hala çok tartışılan Vote Leave kampanyasının perde arkasında yaşananları usta oyuncu Benedict Cumberbatch’ın etkileyici başrolüyle izleyiciye aktarıyor.
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Politikanın Perde Arkası: Brexit: The Uncivil War Temmuz’da Gain’de
Politikanın Perde Arkası: Brexit: The Uncivil War Temmuz’da Gain’de
Yakın tarihin en önemli politik gelişmelerinden Brexit’in ardındaki inanılmaz gerçekleri keşfedin! BBC First işbirliği ile Temmuz ayında GAİN’de yayına girecek olan Brexit: The Uncivil War, hala çok tartışılan Vote Leave kampanyasının perde arkasında yaşananları usta oyuncu Benedict Cumberbatch’ın etkileyici başrolüyle izleyiciye aktarıyor.
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Politikanın Perde Arkası: Brexit: The Uncivil War Temmuz’da Gain’de
Politikanın Perde Arkası: Brexit: The Uncivil War Temmuz’da Gain’de
Yakın tarihin en önemli politik gelişmelerinden Brexit’in ardındaki inanılmaz gerçekleri keşfedin! BBC First işbirliği ile Temmuz ayında GAİN’de yayına girecek olan Brexit: The Uncivil War, hala çok tartışılan Vote Leave kampanyasının perde arkasında yaşananları usta oyuncu Benedict Cumberbatch’ın etkileyici başrolüyle izleyiciye aktarıyor.
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Politikanın Perde Arkası: Brexit: The Uncivil War Temmuz’da Gain’de
Politikanın Perde Arkası: Brexit: The Uncivil War Temmuz’da Gain’de
Yakın tarihin en önemli politik gelişmelerinden Brexit’in ardındaki inanılmaz gerçekleri keşfedin! BBC First işbirliği ile Temmuz ayında GAİN’de yayına girecek olan Brexit: The Uncivil War, hala çok tartışılan Vote Leave kampanyasının perde arkasında yaşananları usta oyuncu Benedict Cumberbatch’ın etkileyici başrolüyle izleyiciye aktarıyor.
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Politikanın Perde Arkası: Brexit: The Uncivil War Temmuz’da Gain’de
Politikanın Perde Arkası: Brexit: The Uncivil War Temmuz’da Gain’de
Yakın tarihin en önemli politik gelişmelerinden Brexit’in ardındaki inanılmaz gerçekleri keşfedin! BBC First işbirliği ile Temmuz ayında GAİN’de yayına girecek olan Brexit: The Uncivil War, hala çok tartışılan Vote Leave kampanyasının perde arkasında yaşananları usta oyuncu Benedict Cumberbatch’ın etkileyici başrolüyle izleyiciye aktarıyor.
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Politikanın Perde Arkası: Brexit: The Uncivil War Temmuz’da Gain’de
Politikanın Perde Arkası: Brexit: The Uncivil War Temmuz’da Gain’de
Yakın tarihin en önemli politik gelişmelerinden Brexit’in ardındaki inanılmaz gerçekleri keşfedin! BBC First işbirliği ile Temmuz ayında GAİN’de yayına girecek olan Brexit: The Uncivil War, hala çok tartışılan Vote Leave kampanyasının perde arkasında yaşananları usta oyuncu Benedict Cumberbatch’ın etkileyici başrolüyle izleyiciye aktarıyor.
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Politikanın Perde Arkası: Brexit: The Uncivil War Temmuz’da Gain’de
Politikanın Perde Arkası: Brexit: The Uncivil War Temmuz’da Gain’de
Yakın tarihin en önemli politik gelişmelerinden Brexit’in ardındaki inanılmaz gerçekleri keşfedin! BBC First işbirliği ile Temmuz ayında GAİN’de yayına girecek olan Brexit: The Uncivil War, hala çok tartışılan Vote Leave kampanyasının perde arkasında yaşananları usta oyuncu Benedict Cumberbatch’ın etkileyici başrolüyle izleyiciye aktarıyor.
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The BBC’s new three-part drama The Way is Michael Sheen’s directorial debut. It has been nearly a decade in gestation, this story of civil unrest fermenting in Sheen’s Welsh home town of Port Talbot – cradle of militant unionism and symbol of working-class fury and pride. It has been created with writer James Graham (Brexit: The Uncivil War, Quiz, Sherwood) and – slightly more unusually, documentary auteur Adam Curtis.
The opening episode is something so different and fresh that even if you can’t say you’re actively enjoying it (though I was), the power and ambition of it all, the unashamed idiosyncrasy that permeates the direction, the allusiveness of the narrative and its slightly dreamlike (or nightmarish) off-kilter quality surely makes you sit up and take notice. It has a clear, accessible narrative at its heart, for sure, but the sensibility is rare and all its own.
It’s a tale of civil discontent, sparked by the death of a youngster in a vat of molten slag at the steelworks and his father’s self-immolation – in grief, in protest, in some unspeakable combination of the two – thereafter. The union blames management and decades of underinvestment. Management offers to reline a furnace, a sop to the emotion of the moment, rather than a recognition of needs. “We didn’t realise we were buying a mood,” says one of the new investors, with a combination of bafflement and frustration.
The unfurling of the unrest plays out for the viewer mostly through the long-established local Driscoll family. The late paterfamilias was a committed striker in the 80s, the failure of which terrible feat of suffering and endurance is largely blamed by the family for his death. His son Geoff (the stalwart Steffan Rhodri, last seen in the excellent Men Up at the end of last year) takes an approach to communicating with the bosses that is more pragmatic/conciliatory/weak/treacherous – delete according to political proclivities. He is separated from his wife and family for reasons that become clear over the succeeding episodes, as does the specific bad blood between his son, benzos addicts and petty dealer Owen (Callum Scott Howells), and his police officer daughter Thea (Sophie Melville).
As the internet is shut down within the town, tensions rise, curfews are imposed and riots between townsfolk and police start to break out. The Driscolls become the police – and the media – scapegoats for it all, and are eventually forced, along with Owen’s eastern European girlfriend, Anna (Maja Laskowska), to flee their home and their town.
Threaded through this growing but none-too-incredible – especially to a post-lockdown audience also being assailed with headlines about coming redundancies at Port Talbot’s Tata Steel (though business secretary Kemi Badenoch has extensive explanations about how government investment is actually saving the works) – dystopian landscape are, presumably thanks mostly to the Curtis influence, potent illustrative clips of real-life news and CCTV footage. Through them the sense of dislocation increases, while the themes of the drama only become more closely knit. From Graham – and, I’d posit, Sheen’s powerful sense of Welshness and all that means historically as well as currently – come the more mystical, ancient touches. The importance the town places on the works’ pilot light never going out; the sword made of the first steel forged in the town, long before modern industry got there; the red-hooded figure appearing and disappearing; Sheen as Geoff’s father’s ghost and/or manifestation of his conscience, pursuing him as they make their escape. And then, as the Cambrian borders become increasingly policed, there is (garbed in a costume somewhere between pastor, Clint Eastwood nemesis and Matthew Hopkins’ finest) the Welshfinder.
It is a bravura opening episode – powerful, confident, ambitious, confrontational and unexpected. It conjures precisely the feeling of a town on the edge, a tinderbox for the powder keg that is an increasingly divided Britain as a whole. Then it pushes things a little further and if you squint just a tiny bit, you could be looking at the future. Maybe even a blueprint, if you were so minded. It feels like a drama fully in the tradition of Bleasdale, Loach, Alan Clarke and Jimmy McGovern, and if it occasionally falls victim to the latter’s tendency to agitprop, that still leaves it head and shoulders above the usual fare.
It doesn’t quite meet the high bar it has set for itself over the remaining episodes. Although they gesture towards the issue of displaced persons and what is to be done with waves of desperate people, they become too much about the internal dynamics of the Driscolls and their family history to feel as innovative or thrilling as that which has gone before. But you can live off the first hour for quite some time to come.
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Politikanın Perde Arkası: Brexit: The Uncivil War Temmuz’da Gain’de
Politikanın Perde Arkası: Brexit: The Uncivil War Temmuz’da Gain’de
Yakın tarihin en önemli politik gelişmelerinden Brexit’in ardındaki inanılmaz gerçekleri keşfedin! BBC First işbirliği ile Temmuz ayında GAİN’de yayına girecek olan Brexit: The Uncivil War, hala çok tartışılan Vote Leave kampanyasının perde arkasında yaşananları usta oyuncu Benedict Cumberbatch’ın etkileyici başrolüyle izleyiciye aktarıyor.
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Politikanın Perde Arkası: Brexit: The Uncivil War Temmuz��da Gain’de
Politikanın Perde Arkası: Brexit: The Uncivil War Temmuz’da Gain’de
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